[00:35] hello everyone! i am using Ubuntu Mate on an almost 12 year-old notebook. Is there any thing that i can do to turn Ubuntu Mate a little bit smoothier for my old friend here? [00:45] bsr [00:46] salut === ct is now known as Guest5199 [03:44] Hi. Dropbox won't connect after initial installation, Caja and Nautalis. This is for both of the ubuntu mates 16... It work fine with linux mint on the same machine.. [03:46] It says it can't Caja has a restart spashscreen, the other a configure proxy flag. Can anyone help me. Please:-) [03:47] I guess I better identify faster next time. === john is now known as Guest23955 === pavlushka is now known as whizzkid === whizzkid is now known as pavlushka [07:13] Good morning! On Ubuntu 16.04 MATE every user gets an (annoying) notification whenever someone (else) prints something. How can we disable this? [13:50] What's the reason for using Caja rather than Nemo? Nemo SEEMS to have more features and integration. [13:58] nemo is from cinnamon project [13:58] caja is from mate project [14:16] hey [14:26] I understand that nemo is cinnamon, but if it is "better" then shouldn't Mate adopt it? Is there a technical reason for maintaining a inveterate, but possible inferior project? [14:27] s/inveterate/seperate/ [14:27] stupid spel-chek [14:27] mate is not a distribution to go around and collect unrelated software [14:28] It has software that is inside its own codebase [14:28] What if they want to apply a theme or a patch and nemo doesn't accept it upstream? They keep maintaining a fork? [15:04] Hello! On Ubuntu 16.04 MATE every user gets an (annoying) notification from CUPS(?) whenever someone (else) prints something. How can we disable this without disabling the whole notification framework? [15:08] Hello: I just upgaded my RPI 3 to 16.04.2 and now the chromium browser is crashing, actually the extensions a re crashing , has anyone else seen this and is there a fix or work around for it?? thanks. [16:56] hi, is it possible to change the Ctrl-Alt-T shortcut to a different terminal other than MATE-terminal? === Talikkaf_ is now known as Talikkaf === aranud87 is now known as aranud87-afk [17:57] hello... just installed Ubuntu mate on my thinkPad T410 [17:58] nice :) [17:58] when i close the lid the main screen doesn't switch to my external monitor [17:58] i like thinkpads, cheap and good computers [17:58] what do you want it to be like when the lid is open? [17:58] my laptop screen stays main screen [17:58] so when lid is open you want and have both screens [17:59] i want to just use my external monitor... not the latop screen [17:59] and when lid is closed you have both screens even though you dont want the laptop screen? [17:59] ok [17:59] john, check the actions in Control Center > Power Management > and then both on AC and battery [17:59] ok... lemme take a look [18:00] for what you want, I think you need to have the external monitor already used, then select "do nothing" for the "When laptop lid is closed" option [18:01] ok... right now it says to suspend [18:01] change and test? [18:02] In the display settings you can kill your built in screen btw. [18:02] And set witch screen to use as main screen. [18:02] I wasn't sure if "Blank Screen" would blank the internal screen or all connected screens [18:02] thanks... for the pointers... just new getting around this version on ubuntu [18:03] had "normal" 16.04 installed for a month... [18:03] and ouroumov_ I'm not seeing that option in my displays menu [18:03] and it just "worked" out of the box [18:04] hmmmm... [18:04] then it's definitly possible, but MATE may not default to the same settings [18:04] closing the laptop lid does nothing [18:04] i guess you could get the default settings from a "normal" ubuntu and put them in ubuntu mate [18:04] so if you are unlucky, then you may have to dick around in the terminal and X server settings to get it how you want [18:04] if nothing else works [18:05] Also, if you are going to distro-hop like you insinuated, then I'd recommend making another partition (/dev/sdaX) and mount it to /home so that if you install a new version, you can keep your files [18:05] oy vay... X server settings... ;) [18:06] ok... if i have too... :-) [18:06] https://xkcd.com/963/ [18:06] lol [18:07] If I wanted to be a moderate dick to a guy (reasons withheld), would dd if=/dev/zero of= do what I think it does? [18:07] or would it write zeros until the end of the hard drive [18:08] ? [18:08] or you know, $ rm xorg.conf && touch xorg.conf [18:08] yes it would write zeros until end of hard drive [18:08] /dev/null represents emptiness, use that [18:08] also supports writing, the writes simply go nowhere :) [18:08] $ echo hi > /dev/null [18:08] um yeah... not TOUCHING that "dd" command... [18:09] yea john69, dd is a fickle beast [18:09] well not much different from cp [18:09] kind of like cp except that doesn't delete destinations and displays nice stats when its done [18:09] it's just bit operations instead of file operations [18:09] well no, the two are the same thing [18:09] you don't run "cp /dev/random /dev/sda" [18:10] well, you can [18:10] it works [18:10] well there's an idea [18:10] Now I have to close a VM [18:10] brb [18:11] ok guys (or gals)... have fun "geeking out" i'm gonna reboot and see what my setting changes bring me... [18:11] thanks for the help! [18:11] john69, just log out and back in [18:11] if you didn't enter your password anywhere that does the same thing as rebooting [18:12] thanks [18:12] will a logout refresh the X server configs, if they only logout to lightdm? [18:14] if lightdm does something weird with this (i doubt it) then we can stop and restart it [18:14] i use my systems without a login manager so i don't know [18:14] I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu Mate uses LightDM by default [18:15] yes it does, but i haven't felt like needing it for a while [18:15] pacman -S toilet [18:15] ignore that [18:16] that happens to me all the time [18:17] IRC, VM, and Terminal all running at the same time [18:17] the biggest problem is that I thought I was in Terminal, and I'm running Ubuntu, not Arch [19:16] hello === aranud87-afk is now known as aranud87 [23:41] z.